From night-time football action at Roker Park to the Wearmouth Bridge as the sun sets, it makes for a wonderful image.
We have 11 of them to share with you, showing sights across the city in the evening glow.
Take a look and if you some historic night-time images of your own, we would love to see them.
1. Superb in 2015
The Spark Drummers paraded from Roker Park down to Cliffe Park at the start of the 2015 Sunderland Illuminations. Photo: se
2. Night-time in 1949
Wearmouth Bridge as the sun sets in 1949. Photo: Sunderland Echo
3. Floodlit in the shipyards
Towering 60 feet above the Wear shipyard of Joseph L Thompson and Sons was the 85,000 ton Norwegian tanker Borgsten in 1963. Photo: Sunderland Echo
4. Shining down on the stadium
An iconic site floodlit in 2006. Photo: SE